Photograph
byA.E.Porsild
MEAT ON THE MARCH: PART OF A HUGE HERD OF REINDEER NEARING THE ENDOF
AFOUR-YEAR
TREK
To keep the Eskimos of northern Canada from starving because of the scarcity of caribou, the Canadian Government
bought
aherd
of3,000
reindeer
inAlaska
and
had them brought overland to a reserve stretching east from the mouth of the Mackenzie. The picture shows some ofthe
animals
near
Shingle
Point,
before
they
crossed
the delta of that river. The march of some 1,600 miles began just before Christmas in 1929 and ended in the winter
of1933-34.